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Johnny Walker posted:Mark Trail "Dad, get me a burrow owl. I'll never ask for anything else as long as I live." Bizarro  The Family Circus  FoxTrot 
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Powered Descent posted:The Family Circus There's tough competition, but somehow The Family Circus manages to be the most cynical and joyless comic in this thread sometimes. Why is the dad so miserable?!
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Powered Descent posted:
Someone should do a wellness check on this dad; he looks like he's thinking "gently caress my life". e: Beaten, but it's actually sort of funny in a gallows humor way that I doubt Keane intended. The picture is so joyous but the dad looks utterly miserable.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Someone should do a wellness check on this dad; he looks like he's thinking "gently caress my life".
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Family Circus hasn't always been that way, right? I feel like my memory is that the dad and mom used to be amused by their children's antics.
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Now that the thread has pointed it out I can't unsee how apathetic and broken the Family Circus parents seem to be.
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FWIW Thel seems to be having a lovely time and I interpret the dad as just noticing stuff like PJ getting into the chocolates and someone's fly being down, not hating spending time with his kids in general.
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PetraCore posted:FWIW Thel seems to be having a lovely time and I interpret the dad as just noticing stuff like PJ getting into the chocolates and someone's fly being down, not hating spending time with his kids in general. Yeah, I think it's supposed to be that or the fact that corraling them to sit for the picture was rough. I'm just amused by how defeated he looks.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Yeah, I think it's supposed to be that or the fact that corraling them to sit for the picture was rough. I'm just amused by how defeated he looks. Yeah, I think he's just realizing he's never getting them all to sit still for 1/60th of a second (to steal a joke from a Calvin strip). Maybe we've all been reading too much Foob. e: And/or Cruel Little Stories.
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It's not like the photo's gonna blur if they move, what's the problem
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Powered Descent posted:The Family Circus Literally 
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I think it's that the kids are all blocking their mother from the camera shot, so mother is not going to be in the mother's day picture.
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Given all that I don't think such a dower expression is warranted.
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Mercury Hat posted:I think it's more commonly called squash in places like the UK, but it's not really something we do here in the US anymore (if we ever did, I'm not sure). Typically the only fruit you can get as a concentrate is orange and it's frozen in a can. Yeah, I guess a closer comparison is that they're filling the same kind of market for mixable drinks as Kool aid/flavor aid and the like fills in the US. They aren't juice-replacements as much as flavoured, generally sugary ways to drink water. It does mean that there are very few powdered/dry drink mixes on the market here, as people are just used to getting them in liquid form. They also double as a convenient way to preserve summer fruits and berries as well, so there's a lot of history with making them at home. It's just another aspect to jamming and jarring. We still have the normal market of ready-to-drink fruit juices and the like you'd expect.
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Wallace the Brave continues to own.
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amigolupus posted:After all the family drama and misery, this strip is a breath of fresh air. More like this, please, Mämmilä. I had the same reaction. Whew!
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Powered Descent posted:Bizarro My brain is rejecting this comic. It cannot abide the notion that someone thought this lovely pun was worth Sunday comic real estate.
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Pancho Jueves posted:My brain is rejecting this comic. It cannot abide the notion that someone thought this lovely pun was worth Sunday comic real estate. Mine can't accept that flower. It looks nothing like a vagina.
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And He Died! (May 18, 1918) Outbursts of Everett True (July 11, 1918)  Banana Oil! (March 18, 1924)  Gay and Her Gang (June 27, 1929)  Oaky Doaks (November 27, 1935)  Mopsy (January 27, 1937)  Dark Laughter (August 4, 1945)  Those Were the Days (April 2, 1953)  Dinky Fellas (August 17, 1965)  Wee Pals (August 17, 1965) 
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I don't think I'll be able to post tomorrow, so here's some early Valiant. Vintage Valiant (Feb. 25, 1945)   The Medieval Castle (Feb. 25, 1945) 
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Slammy posted:Wee Pals (August 17, 1965)
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Sally Forth Pearls Before Swine  Peanuts (May 12, 1974)  Funky Winkerbean  COVIDshaft  Mutt and Jeff  Kinda botched my Sunday again, but at least I have a decent holiday reason to hang it on this time. Life (with Skippy) will happen tomorrow, I promise.
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Slammy posted:And He Died! (May 18, 1918) These two Morrie strips are great, and I think I agree with that Those Were the Days? The drug store growth led directly to big-box retail, and I think I might prefer the inconvenience of a bunch of little shops for things. Not that I'd know for sure. I've never had a big-box-free life. Also "goat eats gunpowder and might explode" is also the plot of an Andy Griffith Show episode. And He Did? More like "Andy did," ammirite?
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Vargo posted:These two Morrie strips are great, and I think I agree with that Those Were the Days? The drug store growth led directly to big-box retail, and I think I might prefer the inconvenience of a bunch of little shops for things. Not that I'd know for sure. I've never had a big-box-free life.
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EasyEW posted:COVIDshaft
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Vargo posted:These two Morrie strips are great, and I think I agree with that Those Were the Days? The drug store growth led directly to big-box retail, and I think I might prefer the inconvenience of a bunch of little shops for things. Not that I'd know for sure. I've never had a big-box-free life. When you have the luxury of choice, sure, but I grew up in the middle of nowhere and our local department store with their policy of "a little bit of everything, and if you need something else we can order it for you" was a lifeline that prevented a day trip to Santa Fe every time kids outgrew their shoes or you needed a new belt. Closed down last year after 40 years being part of the town, end of an era.
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth They're perfect complements to each other. She's got the combined emotional tenor of a haunted opera house on fire, and Drew channels a glass of room temperature milk.
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EasyEW posted:Pearls Before Swine Well, here’s a much more succinct way to explain to people why I left Facebook and Twitter last year.
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Bruceski posted:Mine can't accept that flower. It looks nothing like a vagina. well no, in this painting that's the giant ram skull's job!
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Garfield Heathcliff  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Compu-toon  Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon 
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Buni Rhymes with Orange  Get Fuzzy 5/9/01  Brenda Starr 6/10-12/46    I notice Messick is experimenting a bit more lately with different sizes and shapes of lettering. Smokey Stover 1/12/41  Richard's Poor Almanac  Bonus Ad! Every babysitter knows that if the kids are acting out, the best way to get them quieted down is to give them ... coffee? 
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Someone should do a wellness check on this dad; he looks like he's thinking "gently caress my life". 
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Classic Kevin & Kell (March 26 - April 1, 2001)       I don't even know. Bears are omnivorous already, why would someone care that their children don't eat meat?
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Arlo and Janis Tina's Groove Classic (August 29, 2009)  Arlo and Janis Classic (August 29, 1999)  Garfield Classic (August 29, 1989) 
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Author Unknown? John Allison's Patreon John Allison's Gumroad store Steeple website My Author Unknown? intro guide password is TheOther
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